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Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago, I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was __1__ into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the far end of the sofa, was __2__ , with the secondhand green typewriter on the table.

She told me that she couldn‘t __3__ fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment at finding Mother in tears was a perfect proof of how __4__ I understood the pressure on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I began very slowly to understand. “ I guess we all have to __5__ something,”

Mother said quietly. I could __6__ her pain and the tension of __7__ the strong feelings that were interrupted by my __8__ . Suddenly, something inside me lit up. I reached out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face__9__ my shoulder and sobbed. I held her __10__ and didn't try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should, what I could and that was __11__ . At

that moment, feeling Mother's __12__ with feelings, I understood for the first time her being easy to __13__ . She was still my mother, __14__ she was something __15__ : a person like me, capable of fear and __16__ and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand

occasions when I sought __17__ in her arms. A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station __18__. “ It's a job I can do, though，” she said simply. But the evening practice on the green typewriter continued. I had a very __19__ feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her __20__ away across the paper. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to type.

1．A. tired ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?B. ashamed ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?C. lazy ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. shocked

2．A. crying ? ? ? ? ? ? ?B. smiling ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. thinking ? ? ? ? ? D. whispering

3．A. understand ? ? ?B. type ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?C. run ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. return

4．A. eagerly ? ? ? ? ? ?B. worriedly ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?C. little ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?D. much

5．A. fail ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?B. win ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?C. forget ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?D. obtain

6．A. kill ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?B. watch ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. sense ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?D. recognize

7．A. holding back ? ?B. putting away ? ? ? ? ??C. staying up ? ? ? ? D. stopping from

8．A. pain ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?B. laughter ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. arrival ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?D. disappearance

9．A. to ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? B. up ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. through ? ? ? ? ? ? D. against

10．A. tightly ? ? ? ? ? B. thoughtfully ? ? ? ? ? ?C. carefully ? ? ? ? ? ? D. politely

11．A. enough ? ? ? ? B. precise ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. content ? ? ? ? ? ? ?D. serious

12．A. hand ? ? ? ? ? ?B. face ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?C. hair ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. back

13．A. satisfy ? ? ? ? ?B. break ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. fall ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?D. shout

14．A. while ? ? ? ? ? ?B. although ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. yet ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. since

15．A. more ? ? ? ? ? ?B. excellent ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. strange ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. huge

16．A. wound ? ? ? ? ?B. defeat ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. cut ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. hurt

17．A. kindness ? ? ? B. memory ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?C. comfort ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. support

18．A. supplied ? ? ? ?B. offered ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. paid for ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. contributed

19．A. different ? ? ? ?B. hard ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?C. pleasant ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. devoted

20．A. screaming ? ? ?B. laughing ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??C. tapping ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. sewing

答案及解析：

1. D.剛剛放學(xué)回家，我被眼前的一幕震驚(shocked)得目瞪口呆。

2. A.由下文的finding Mother in tears可知此處應(yīng)填crying。

3. B.這里指的是母親打字(type)不快，因此下崗。

4. C.在發(fā)現(xiàn)母親傷心流淚時(shí)，我所表現(xiàn)的尷尬和震驚證明了我對(duì)母親肩負(fù)的壓力了解得是那么的少(little)。

5. A.母親在自我安慰：我想我們大家都會(huì)失敗。something前省略了介詞in.

6．感覺(jué)到。我察覺(jué)到母親的痛苦和盡力抑制自己的感情。kill殺；watch觀看；recognize認(rèn)出，承認(rèn)。

7. back抑制；put away把……收起來(lái)；sit up坐起，熬夜；stop from阻止……做。這里指母親控制自己的感情。

8. C.此處是說(shuō)母親的感情被“我”的到來(lái)打斷了。

9. D.我伸手抱住了母親，她那時(shí)完全崩潰(broke)了。

10. A.我緊緊地抱著她。

11. A.我知道我在做我應(yīng)該做的事和我能做的事情，那已經(jīng)足夠了。

12. D.雙手抱著母親，此處應(yīng)該是撫摸著母親的背部。

13. B.此處是說(shuō)“我”第一次懂得了母親很容易心碎、垮下。所以填break.

14. C.此處是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。

15. A.然而母親像我一樣也有別的東西：恐懼、內(nèi)心的痛苦和失敗。

16. 多指精神上的痛苦。

17. C.此處的意思是：我在她的臂彎里尋求安慰(comfort)時(shí)。

18. radio station offered為定語(yǔ)從句，修飾salary.

19. A.作者夜里走過(guò)媽媽的房門，還聽到媽媽在練習(xí)打字，自然是感慨萬(wàn)千，所以應(yīng)填different,別樣的感覺(jué)。

20. (在打字機(jī)上)敲打。